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15+ Make Time to Listen…Take Time to Talk
    15+ Make Time to Listen…Take Time to Talk

Provides practical guidance for parents & caregivers on strengthening relationships with their children by spending at least 15 undivided minutes with them daily.



A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free
    A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free

Family Guide is a public education Web site developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds.



Access to Recovery
    Access to Recovery

ATR is a presidential initiative which provides vouchers to clients for purchase of substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services. The goals of the program are to expand capacity, support client choice, and increase the array of faith-based and community based providers for clinical treatment and recovery support services.



As You Age
    As You Age

As You Age is a public education campaign to warn older adults about the dangers of misusing medications or mixing them with alcohol.



Building Blocks for a Healthy Future
    Building Blocks for a Healthy Future

Building Blocks is an early prevention program for parents and caregivers of 3 to 6 year-olds. It is designed to educate about the basics of prevention in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.



Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign
    Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign

"The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health" communications campaign helps to increase public awareness that many children have real, painful, and sometimes severe mental health problems and that the mental health of young people can be protected and nurtured through early, appropriate treatment and services.



Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
    Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

The FASD Center provides information and resources about FASD. It also features materials you can use to raise awareness about FASD.



Helping America’s Youth
    Helping America’s Youth

Helping America’s Youth is a nationwide effort, led by First Lady Laura Bush, to benefit children and teenagers by encouraging action in three key areas: family, school, and community.



Mental Health Services Locator
    Mental Health Services Locator

A searchable directory of mental health treatment facilities and support services.



Mental Health: Its Part of All Our Lives
    Mental Health: Its Part of All Our Lives

Provides a variety of resources designed to reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by persons with mental illnesses in our society. Includes facts and myths about mental health.



National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC)
    National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC)

Assists publicly-funded agencies, programs, and services in making the important cultural shift to a more trauma-informed environment that benefits both systems and consumers—an environment that is more supportive, comprehensively integrated, and empowering for trauma survivors.



National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices
    National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices

NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.



National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
    National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness

Develops papers, workshops, and training programs on service delivery to homeless persons with serious mental illnesses. Maintains a database of over 4,000 articles.



National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
    National Strategy for Suicide Prevention

NSSP represents the combined work of advocates, clinicians, researchers, and survivors around the Nation. It contains links to resources that deal with understanding and preventing suicide and Federal plans for reducing suicide in this country.



Older Americans Technical Assistance Center
    Older Americans Technical Assistance Center

The mission of the Older Americans Substance Abuse and Mental Health Technical Assistance Center is to enhance the quality of life and promote the physical and mental well-being of older Americans through the provision of technical assistance.



Partners for Recovery (PFR)
    Partners for Recovery (PFR)

Partners for Recovery supports and provides technical resources to those who deliver services for the prevention and treatment of substance use and mental health disorders and seeks to improve services and systems of care.



Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
    Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness

The PATH Project is a formula grant program that supports service delivery to people with serious mental illnesses, as well as people with co-occurring substance use disorders, who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.



Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP)
    Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP)

Peer-to-peer recovery support services help people initiate and sustain recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders. Some RCSP grant projects also offer support to family members of people needing, seeking, or in recovery.



Recovery Month
    Recovery Month

Recovery Month aims to promote the societal benefits of substance abuse treatment, laud the contributions of treatment providers and promote the message that recovery from substance abuse in all its forms is possible.



Safe Schools/Healthy Students
    Safe Schools/Healthy Students

The SS/HS Initiative is a unique Federal grant-making program designed to prevent violence and substance abuse among our Nation`s youth, schools, and communities.



SAMHSA's Co-occurring Center for Excellence
    SAMHSA's Co-occurring Center for Excellence

SAMHSA's Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) provides technical, informational, and training resources to States, communities, and providers that offer services to persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.



Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT)
    Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT)

SBIRT is a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for persons with or at risk for substance use disorders.



StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov
    StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov

StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov is a comprehensive portal of Federal resources for information on underage drinking and ideas for combating this issue. People interested in underage drinking prevention—including parents, educators, community-based organizations, and youth—will find a wealth of valuable information here.



Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive

SAMHDA provides free access to the most up-to-date, comprehensive data on drug abuse and mental health, including SAMHSA’s annual data collections, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), and National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS). Features include a variable-level search, online data analysis, easy-to-produce tables and graphs (Quick Tables), bibliographies, user support, and data downloadable in SAS, SPSS, and Stata.



Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator System
    Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator System

This searchable directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs shows the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse problems.



Suicide Prevention Resource Center
    Suicide Prevention Resource Center

SPRC provides prevention support, training, and informational materials to strengthen suicide prevention networks and to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.



Systems of Care
    Systems of Care

Systems of Care is an approach to mental health services that recognizes the importance of family, school and community. It seeks to promote the full potential of every child and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and social needs.



The Knowledge Application Program (KAP)
    The Knowledge Application Program (KAP)

The Knowledge Application Program (KAP) The Knowledge Application Program (KAP) is an initiative to coordinate all of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's (CSAT's) knowledge application activities. KAP puts knowledge about best treatment practices into the hands of providers helping individuals who seek substance abuse treatment.



Too Smart to Start
    Too Smart to Start

An underage alcohol use prevention initiative for parents, caregivers, and their 9-to-13 year-old children.



Treatment Improvement Exchange
    Treatment Improvement Exchange

CSAT’s Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) provides a forum for information exchange between CSAT staff and State and local alcohol and substance abuse agencies.



Workplace Resource Center
    Workplace Resource Center

The Workplace Resource Center provides centralized access to information about drug-free workplaces and related topics.

Last Update: 4/21/2008